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I think daily life is where the lessons come in - that's where the tests and the growth come in.

Marianne Williamson

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Marianne Williamson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
Peace Activist
Philanthropist
Politician
Writer
Houston
Texas
Marianne Deborah Williamson
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The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.
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In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how both Democrats and Republicans have conspired to reduce democratic participation. If this is the best the Democrats and Republicans have to offer, it's time to look elsewhere.Politics should be the prism for our most noble intentions.
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Ego says, Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace. Spirit says, Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place.
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Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.
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The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through
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As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love—then external lack is bound to be temporary.
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Yes, hardships come. But I see in my life and in the lives of others how often something that does not have to be held as a hardship is dealt with by the mind as though it is.
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Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.
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Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.
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The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
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The more you drop into your heart, the more God can drop into your mind.
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The reason we don't often confront the larger question of whether or not war is survivable is because of a failure of imagination. We honestly cannot imagine having reached a state in our own evolution in which we do not fight.
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Our challenge is to not look away, but rather to transform the field to create a new political conversation, our own conversation, out of which we can speak our truth in our own way.
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Relationship are part of the vast plan for our enlightenment.
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No one is any more or any less important than you are.
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The world loves us when we choose to love the world.
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Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.
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Make a room for love and it always comes. Make a nest for love and it always settles. Make a home for the beloved and the beloved with always find their way there
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The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.
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We aren't bodies at all who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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